Costs

American colleges and universities spend billions of dollars a year from state, federal, and private sources. The following articles identify ways to cut costs and ensure that public investment in higher education provides value to students, taxpayers, and society.

Former Black Panther leader decries “fascist” U.S. at Duke

Dec 1, 2001 · Jon Sanders

A former head of a domestic terrorist organization spoke at Duke University on Nov. 15 to an apparently receptive crowd.

Report on teacher certification riles education establishment

Nov 15, 2001 · George Leef

“Teacher Certification: Stumbling for Quality” is the title of a major report released in October by the Abell Foundation that has vexed the vociferous education establishment. The report, by Kate Walsh, tackles the assumptions that undergird the regulatory policies that all states have implemented, mandating teacher certification as the way to ensure good teachers.

Universities return to business as usual, fighting racism, sexism, homophobia

Oct 12, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

A month has past since the attacks on New York and Washington. Although most in the campus community are, like nearly all Americans, horrified by the attacks and wanting some semblance of justice brought to the perpetrators, a very vocal minority on university campuses is intermittently making new proclamations of U.S. culpability in terrorism. (A forum sponsored by the University Scholars Program at North Carolina State University featuring N.C. State professor of plant pathology Bob Bruck was the latest example of the latter.)

Prank at UNC-Chapel Hill leads to calls for homosexual student center

Sep 28, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

Someone used the Campus Calendar section of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to place a fake announcement of a gay pride rally later in the week. The prank set into motion a ludicrous, only-at-Chapel-Hill chain of events.

The glaring omission from Moeser

Sep 14, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill needs more money from taxpayers and donors and more issues advocacy from faculty and administration members, Chancellor James Moeser said this Sept. in his first “State of the University” speech to the Chapel Hill campus.

Assessing women’s need for an on-campus masseusse

Jul 15, 2001 · Jon Sanders

UNCW has completed its “needs assessment” for a proposed women’s center there.

UNC students protest proposed budget cuts

Jun 1, 2001 · Jon Sanders

In early May, more than 2,000 college students marched from N.C. State University to and through the State Legislative Building to protest a proposed reduction in state appropriations to schools in the University of North Carolina system.

Study Proposes Over $100 Million in State Higher Ed. Savings

May 16, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

A state budget crisis has a new governor hamstrung, legislators flummoxed, state agencies fearful of reductions, taxpayers fretting over future tax increases, and state lottery opponents afraid they’ll lose their issue. Changing Course IV, a publication of the John Locke Foundation, proposes a biennial budget for North Carolina that would calm the fears of the taxpayers and lottery opponents. It would exacerbate those of the state agencies, however.

UNC Students Protest Budget Cut

May 4, 2001 · Chad Adams

More than 2,000 college students on Wednesday marched from N.C. State University to and through the State Legislative Building to protest a proposed reduction in state appropriations to schools in the University of North Carolina system

Secrecy surrounds proposed women’s center at UNC-Wilmington

Mar 15, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

Talk of a new women’s center at UNC-Wilmington has at least one student organization asking questions. According to John Kaiser, Chairman of the Conservative Leadership Group (CLG) at UNC-W, it’s not the idea of having a women’s center at the university that upsets members of his group, but the secrecy surrounding the issue.